Street Floods in Lambeth
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When the Thames burst its banks, Lambeth's low-lying streets got the worst of it. After one flood a widow's tiny room was left with a tide mark four feet up the wall. Mrs Rowlett, who'd run a rag store for 27 years, said the main thing was that they'd 'saved our piano'. Locals like Jack Smith scraped a living picking scrap iron, coal and wood out of the river shallows, and moonlighted as a comedian in pub shows. John Thomson photographed the aftermath in 1877 for Street Life in London.
• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil
• Paper weight: 189 g/m²
• Opacity: 94%
• ISO brightness: 104%
• Paper is sourced from Japan
